Al-Ahram Weekly Online   30 April - 6 May 2009
Issue No. 945
Features
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Another Orient
Eva Dadrian looks at the variety of life of Armenians resident in Egypt today and the multi-faceted nature of the jobs they undertake from archaeology to Egyptology, and contemporary Armenian studies to history
Pyramids on the mind
Nothing predestined Hourig Sourouzian to become an Egyptologist and to be the one who would one day discover a splendid statue of Queen Tiye, wife of Amenhotep (Amenophis) III and mother of Akhenaton, labelled the heretic Pharaoh...
One constructor, one conservationist
I was drawn to Islamic architecture because it's alive, and as an architect I enjoy working on historic monuments that are in a living urban context where people live and make use of them...

© Copyright Al-Ahram Weekly. All rights reserved

Issue 945 Front Page
Front Page | Egypt | Region | Economy | International | Opinion | Press review | Reader's corner | Culture | Entertainment | Features | Heritage | Living | Sports | Cartoons | People | Listings | BOOKS | TRAVEL
Current issue | Previous issue | Site map